Within neighborhood
33
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
North Memphis Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 47157000800 · Shelby County, TN · pop 2,001 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
47157000800 is a census tract in the North Memphis area of Memphis, TN. It scores 5.4/10 for landlords. 31% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 26%
Stable renters 39%
Owners 35%
Tract context
Occupied units888
Renter share65.0%
SVI overall0.98
Poverty rate37.2%
Median income$33,750
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
68
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
73
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
98
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Memphis and the region
Centroid at 35.1784, -89.9722 · click any tract to drill in
Why North Memphis scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Memphis
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.5
State political climate
Tennessee legislature & governorship
1.9
Economic stress
37.2% poverty · this tract
9.3
Supply constraint
$731 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Memphis
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Memphis
5.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Memphis
4.5
How North Memphis compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 98
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 94%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 76%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 74%Grade C
- 2%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 297Total filings 2020-21
- 3.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 5.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.72×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Memphis, TN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within North Memphis. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in North Memphis
The dominant input is economic stress at 9.3/10. At $731 a month, rents run 38% under what the rest of Memphis commands. Disability prevalence runs 51.6% against 31.5% nationally.
The poverty rate is 37%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.
Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Against Shelby County at 48.3%, 40% of renters here are cost-burdened. Against the Shelby County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.
Adults with no health insurance runs 19.1% against 11.3% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.8/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 47157000800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 47157000800?
Census tract 47157000800 in the North Memphis neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 47157000800?
Median gross rent is $731/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 40% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 47157000800?
37.2% of residents in tract 47157000800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,001.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 47157000800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 98th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 99th, household 94th, minority 98th, housing 76th.
Q5
Is tract 47157000800 considered part of North Memphis?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 47157000800 fall within North Memphis (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 47157000800 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.72× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Memphis eviction risk, TN), 2020-2021.
Q7
How does tract 47157000800 compare to Memphis overall?
Tract 47157000800 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Memphis at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Memphis eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 47157000800 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 2% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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